• Offered for Year: 2024/25

• Module Leader(s): Dr Robyn Cooke
• Lecturer: Mrs Elisa Wrightham, Professor Peter Thelwall, Professor Christopher Harding, Ms Elizabeth Jefferson, Professor Christopher Eggett, Dr Claire-Louise Chapple, Dr Jérémie Nsengimana, Ms Kathia Fiaschi, Dr Judith Mott

• Owning School: School of Medical Education
• Teaching Location: Mixed Location

Semesters

Your programme is made up of credits, the total differs on programme to programme.

Aims

This module aims to develop the knowledge and skills required to allow students to undertake a research project of relevance to their unit/workplace/profession through research, service evaluation, audit or other relevant methods. It also aims to develop a range of professional and key skills, which will enable them to engage in research at an advanced level in the NHS, higher education or in a senior professional capacity in other fields of employment.

Outline Of Syllabus

1) Learn how to conduct a research project within the workplace environment.

2) Learn how to manage a project from inception to completion.

3) Learn how the various forms of communication are used to communicate research findings and how they relate to each other.

Teaching Methods

Teaching Activities

Teaching Rationale And Relationship

This module will involve a significant amount of private study, including research-based fieldwork and practical experience of a range of clinical research techniques. Such activities will take place in the workplace and are supported by the VLE.

As each student project is unique with individual limitations/constraints of timeframe and workplace facilities, self-directed study with mentoring/pedagogic support from the course teachers is the relevant teaching and learning method.

The amount of hours spent on practical, fieldwork and private study will vary with the individual project but should be approximately as stated above.

Assessment Methods

The format of resits will be determined by the Board of Examiners

Other Assessment

Zero Weighted Pass/Fail Assessments

Assessment Rationale And Relationship

The knowledge and practical skills generated are tested in all the assessment activities.

The assessment of this module reflects the real world of medical research and trains the students in the necessary skills required to write and submit: an abstract, a short dissertation in the format of a scientific paper appropriate for publication, and to present their findings in a poster format.

The short abstract (as used in an application to a conference or a professional body) tests the student’s ability to condense their own work highlighting major points for presentation.

The dissertation tests the student’s ability to critically evaluate their own data and compare their own findings with the published literature, as well as their ability to present and analyse data and discuss their own work in a written format.

The poster assesses the student’s ability to prepare a short summary of their findings using appropriate software in clear way to an audience of peers in a space-limited fashion, as would be appropriate for a poster at a conference.

Interpersonal communication, teamwork, planning, organising, initiative, and adaptability are all assessed in the mark given for professional skills and computer literacy is assessed in the poster, abstract and dissertation.

The ethics and governance form summarises which approvals (or indicates none if that is the case) the project required, and is submitted by the student prior to initiating the project with evidence that the necessary approvals have been obtained. This provides assurance that the governance needs of the project have been met.

Reading Lists

• MSC8004's Reading List

Timetable

• Timetable Website: www.ncl.ac.uk/timetable/
• MSC8004's Timetable